The 42.5 Billion Dollar Broadband Equity, Access & Deployment Program (BEAD) is passed and signed into law. When will those grants be awarded? Two factors affecting that timeframe will be when the detailed notifications are sent to the states (Notice of Funding Opportunity), as well as the completion of the required updating of federal broadband maps.
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